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  1. PCI on TV Tuners For The PC: Internal Or External · · Score: 1

    you can pry my bt878 from my cold, dead hands.

  2. Re:Couple of things... on Blimps... In... Space... · · Score: 1

    ok, $1/ton/mile... let's say you're going to 100 miles.

    that's $100/ton, or $0.05/pound.

    current launch costs are ~$10,000/pound.
    that's FIVE orders of magnitude.

  3. Re:Before the UFO nuts come out .... on Area 51 Hackers Map Buried Surveillance Network · · Score: 2, Insightful

    but the crazy UFO stories need to come to an end.

    Why? :)

  4. Re:Breaks Nvidia Module on Linux Kernel 2.6.6 Released · · Score: 1

    yes but... does it load into the running kernel?

    mine won't load and I didn't even turn on the 4kb option!

  5. hmmm on SCO Identifies EV1Servers as Linux Licensee · · Score: 1

    As the owner of headsurfer.net, you can rest assured that this new development will be thoroughly lambasted on that site as soon as I can get it back up.

  6. Re:Great! on Qwest To Offer 'Naked DSL' · · Score: 1

    oplink RULES! fellow customer here.

  7. Re:A Perspective on Next ISS Crew Incompatible · · Score: 1

    Looking over the crew list, were there any interesting things that came up from having one female and five males, or were you too busy or whatever for that to have any effect?

  8. Re:Things like... on What You Can't Say · · Score: 1

    if you would like, read the first chapter of "the best democracy money can buy", by greg palast. then read the rest of the book :-)

  9. Re:Depenguinator... on Depenguinator "Upgrades" Linux to BSD · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    damn i can't spell this morning
    it MADE a nice crash

  10. Re:Depenguinator... on Depenguinator "Upgrades" Linux to BSD · · Score: 1

    I defenestrated my three-lamp pole lamp thingie last week, it might a nice crash in the back yard after falling 1.5 stories...

  11. Re:Risk Assessment on Scientists Create Deadlier TB Strain By Accident · · Score: 1

    As technology gets more and more powerful, the killing power of one man increases more and more (as well as the healing power). The problem comes when one man has the ability to, by himself, decide to wipe out all humans and then carry through with it. However, one could view a species that ends up killing itself as an undesireable one. So really it comes down to, will we kill ourselves or not?

  12. Re:My open source contribution to NASA on NASA Report Advocates Switch to Open Source · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ADA RULES!!!!!!!

  13. mirrored on Penny Arcade vs. American Greetings · · Score: 1

    it's on the censored archive, in strawberry_shortcake. see .sig for details.

  14. Re:\/\/00t! on Canadian Lab Unravels SARS With A Beowulf Cluster · · Score: 1

    Just wait until HIV crosses with some cold virus in asia and then it can be passed through the air...

  15. Re:DRM? on China's 64bit Homegrown CPU · · Score: 1

    How are Intel and/or AMD chips "crippled"? Are you referring to cpu id's?

    Both the upcoming Hammer series as well as Intel chips starting with the Centrino will be "featuring" the necessary hardware for MS's Palladium scheme.

  16. backwards compatibility on China's 64bit Homegrown CPU · · Score: 1

    From the article:

    "The chip will be binary backward compatible to the 32-bit Godson-1, a path of compatibility first chosen by Advanced Micro Devices in development of its Opteron line."

    What a load of horse. Sun did this ~10 yrs ago with the SPARC -> UltraSPARC transition, the PowerPC and POWER specs also include such compatibility, and if I'm not mistaken MIPS themselves did this as well also ~10 yrs ago. Some reporter there really doesn't know his stuff.

  17. ffmpeg is your friend on Linux Real Time MPEG Compression? · · Score: 1

    ffmpeg. go grab the current cvs sources from sourceforge, if they're back up yet. also if you don't like that interface, you can use the ffmpeg core within mencoder, from the mplayer suite. look it up on freshmeat.

  18. Re:Quick question on Linux Kernel Performance How Will 2.6 Measure Up? · · Score: 1

    censored.firehead.org is a dual P100 with 32MB RAM and a decent SCSI subsystem (one disk). It gets many many hits a day.

  19. Re:Does republishing these... on Why UNIX is better than Windows... By Microsoft · · Score: 2

    Violate the DMCA criminally, get sent to prison for a few months while waiting for trial, you will likely be raped by the inmates there. There's a not-insignificant chance of scoring the lovely HIV from one of these encounters.

    Federal death sentence, anyone?

  20. Re:And if your boss wouldn't let you do it before. on Folding@Home Client's Performance Impact Measured · · Score: 1

    65W * 12 extra hrs per day * 365.25 day per year * 1/1000 KWH / WH * $0.09/KWH = $25.64 / year

    Assuming a $50K/yr salary (and not counting other employee costs), even adding in the same amount of money in increased air conditioning, this is only equivalent to a tenth of a percent increase per employee. Maybe when you're in your apartment you notice the extra electricity cost, but a corporation with lots of employees will not.

  21. DINGDINGDING on DivX DVD Players Arrive · · Score: 1

    The ffmpeg project can decode divx 3.11 files with 100% GPL code. It can even encode to the msmpeg4v3 format, which is essentially what the hacked divx 3.11 binary was outputting.

  22. xvid is most importantly an mpeg4 encoder on Slashback: Dataplay, XviD, PPC · · Score: 2, Informative

    It has benefits and disadvantages compared to the other major mpeg4 encoders out there: DIVX 4, DIVX 5, and ffmpeg. For decoding, it doesn't matter nearly as much, but it's good to have a lot of encoders around to keep things competitive.

    mplayer is not a video codec.

  23. I've got just the solution for you on Mac OS X to Get Journaling FS · · Score: 1

    It's the Linux I started out with, and the one I still use on my desktop to this day: Slackware. More BSD than any of the other Linuxen.

  24. screw Adaptec on IDE to SCSI Converters? · · Score: 2

    Their stuff is always priced about twice as high as the competition. I just bought a brand-new LSI Logic 21040 controller, one channel of Ultra160 and one of Ultra for like $120, and it's even a 64-bit PCI card!

  25. Re:Well this is all very well but... on New AMD Athlon 2600 Processor Released · · Score: 1

    ummmm.... just how the fuck would the chipset have anything to do with the HALT instruction? All the chipset does is pass the bits that correspond to that instruction over to the CPU, which then has the sole task of implementing them.